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Today, 08:02 AM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Supervisable delivery robots. in Off-Topic Babbling

This particular idea wouldn't take away any jobs, as it would still need supervising. Also maybe the idea could be applied to replace wheelchairs,...

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Today, 07:13 AM

Mudskipper started a thread Supervisable delivery robots. in Off-Topic Babbling

I think maybe the people working on robotics may be aiming at making almost completely autonomous robots, but maybe a midway type of robot would be a...

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Yesterday, 07:13 PM

BigDon replied to a thread Captain Swoop, Is The British Navy THAT Short Handed? They Forgave This Guy! in Off-Topic Babbling

I was trying to think of a sea story for the Chief that I hadn't told already and wasn't something I told before in the flightdeck thread. I...

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2017-Oct-19, 01:44 PM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Do CGI models of eg chickens come ready made for film makers? in Off-Topic Babbling

Oh I just saw a KFC ad on another forum....maybe they are real chickens, or maybe they are CGI.,

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2017-Oct-19, 07:33 AM

Mudskipper replied to a thread So when neutron stars collide..? in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

well given that the stars will have coalesced from the same dust cloud, I thought that they maybe be spinning in the same plane, and direction.

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2017-Oct-18, 06:48 AM

Mudskipper started a thread So when neutron stars collide..? in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

They star off in orbit around each other, with their own revolution rates(presumably with the same spin direction?) The system loses energy(with...

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2017-Oct-17, 10:30 PM

BigDon replied to a thread Captain Swoop, Is The British Navy THAT Short Handed? They Forgave This Guy! in Off-Topic Babbling

Flight line. The keys to the aircraft. Chow line. A.S.H. receptacles. Really effective on people fresh out of a military aviation tech...

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2017-Oct-17, 10:18 PM

BigDon replied to a thread Backyard Wildlife in Off-Topic Babbling

Hey Chief, I knew a Marine who got all philanthropic when he witnessed a mature great horned owl get caught up in the vortex of a speeding big rig...

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2017-Oct-17, 09:44 PM

BigDon replied to a thread Another aircraft engine question - turbofan sounds in Science and Technology

I spent a LOT of time on the flightdeck of a Kittyhawk-class carrier. The Constellation to be exact. That's five and a halve acres of flightdeck to...

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2017-Oct-17, 09:29 PM

BigDon replied to a thread The "Twilight Bark" in Off-Topic Babbling

Doc, you reminded me of a occurrence several years ago. I lived in a bad neighborhood, where bad people did bad things. And I didn't know it at...

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2017-Oct-17, 09:02 PM

BigDon replied to a thread Do CGI models of eg chickens come ready made for film makers? in Off-Topic Babbling

It would still take days to finish. According to folk who do this sort of thing and then write it down, i.e. Julius Caesar, it takes 2000...

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2017-Oct-17, 08:46 PM

BigDon replied to a thread Let's hear it again for our moderators! in Forum Introductions and Feedback

Whenever one of my kids pulls something like this I go; "Hmmm, whadja do?" :) Oh, and for my real input: I will always remember that it...

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2017-Oct-17, 11:06 AM

Mudskipper started a thread Do CGI models of eg chickens come ready made for film makers? in Off-Topic Babbling

I have wondered when you see certain CGI things like animals etc whether the film makers just buy a specific software package for that animal, which...

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2017-Oct-16, 12:02 AM

Mudskipper replied to a thread would making c half the value make matter smaller? And other effects... in Science and Technology

I wondered the other week, whether the only actual things that matter are angles...I guess an angle can be expressed as a ratio with a complete...

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2017-Oct-15, 03:40 PM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Could we have a higher dimensional existence? in Science and Technology

I knew I should have put this in babbling.....as for 'verse.....it seems a better word...as some people see 'universe' as meaning 'everything'...:)

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2017-Oct-15, 07:02 AM

Mudskipper started a thread Could we have a higher dimensional existence? in Science and Technology

Maybe it would be a multiverse idea, except all the 'verses are somehow in communication. Say in one 'verse we are banging a nail into a bit of wood,...

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2017-Oct-15, 06:11 AM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Infinite Universe in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

but why would a 3-tube be more of a strange topology than an infinite universe in all directions?

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2017-Oct-15, 01:34 AM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Infinite Universe in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

Even if the universe were infinite in size, could it still have topology? Would a 3-tube, that extended without limit, be flat?

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2017-Oct-14, 05:02 PM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Infinite Universe in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

I have read that the 3-torus model would also mean flat space...is that correct?

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2017-Oct-14, 06:03 AM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Infinite Universe in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

If you had a theory of matter which meant it could only be stable in a finite universe, then the existence of matter would be some evidence for a...

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2017-Oct-12, 07:55 AM

Mudskipper replied to a thread Some Non-trivial Things That Annoy Me. in Off-Topic Babbling

I'm not a tech person, but sometimes these things come down to the 'handshakes'(?) these pieces of equipment do, and the order they do them.....so...

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2017-Oct-11, 09:05 PM

Mudskipper replied to a thread would making c half the value make matter smaller? And other effects... in Science and Technology

yes, I have wondered that as well....it seems to me that changing c would be similar, and that no body would notice it..

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2017-Oct-09, 05:06 PM

BigDon replied to a thread Hydrogen bombs in Science and Technology

I'm hearing a lot of talk in newspapers about 1/4 megaton and hydrogen bombs in the same sentence, while personally never hearing of a hydrogen bomb...

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2017-Oct-09, 04:51 PM

BigDon replied to a thread Captain Swoop, Is The British Navy THAT Short Handed? They Forgave This Guy! in Off-Topic Babbling

Oh, Chief Rhysling, My foster son was quick to point out something had completely forgotten about making CPO. "Not only did I make Chief, I got...

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2017-Oct-09, 04:48 PM

BigDon replied to a thread Captain Swoop, Is The British Navy THAT Short Handed? They Forgave This Guy! in Off-Topic Babbling

Chief, I think they're referring to my sea story thread...

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